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Author Broglio, Ron, 1966- author.

Title Beasts of burden : biopolitics, labor, and animal life in British Romanticism / Ron Broglio.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 163 pages).
text file
Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Animal life and rural labor: Literary and material resistance in biopolitical Britain -- Docile numbers and stubborn bodies: Population and the problem of multitude -- On vulnerability: Studies from life that ought not to be copied -- Wonder as resistance: Sheep, fairies, and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd -- Animal dwelling in natural history: Thomas Bewick, George Stubbs, and corporality -- Man proposes, animality disposes: Antihuman landseer with implications for biopolitical Britain -- Afterword: Romanticism in the dust of this planet.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Animals in literature.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Animals in art.
Animals in art.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Broglio, Ron, 1966- Beasts of burden. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2017 9781438465678 (DLC) 2016031433
ISBN 9781438465692 (electronic book)
1438465696 (electronic book)
9781438465678 (hardcover alkaline paper)